After the January controversy, which involved the disclosure of false news about the alleged payment of fees or monitoring of financial operations, The volume of operations via Pix grew again hard in February.
In the first ten days of the month, 1,849 billion transfers, What represents a growth of 9.8% over the same period of the previous month.
The period of the first ten days of the month is important to understand the operation of the system, because it coincides with the payment of workers’ salaries. Therefore, it is the period of the month when people have more money in the account.
In January, on the contrary, the use of pix was a strong drop of 12.8% in that same period of ten days in the middle of the Confusion about monitoring the operation via the federal revenue.
The situation even led the government to react with the revocation of the Federal Revenue Normative Instruction on the subject. Then the government also issued a provisional measure to make it clear that Pix will not be taxed, and there will be no tax payment in this transaction.
Despite the increase in the number of operations in February, the total busy in the first ten days of the month fell slightly – with a decrease of 0.70% – and totaled R $ 718.1 billion.
On average, each pix made in the first ten days of February was R $ 371, an increase of 2.40% compared to the same period of January.
